By Lyndsey Parker, Yahoo Music | In August 2017, Kim Shattuck, the frontwoman, guitarist, and primary songwriter for seminal L.A. powerpop band the Muffs, told her bandmate of nearly 30 years, bassist Ronnie Barnett, that she couldn’t grip with her left hand. That same month, at backyard party where she was supposed to perform with Vicki and Debbi Peterson of the Bangles, she couldn’t play guitar (she ended up guesting on tambourine instead), and her friend unwittingly photographed an exchange between Shattuck and Barnett that fateful day.
“She’s holding her hand and showing me that she can’t make a fist,” Barnett tells Yahoo Entertainment, describing the ominous snapshot. “And that was her other hand. I already knew the left hand wasn’t really working, but she was holding up her right hand to me. If you look at my face in the photo, I’m horrified. That is a moment that’s going to haunt me forever.”
Two months later, Shattuck was given the damning diagnosis of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, which ran in her family. Her decline was tragic and swift. . .
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